POV - Season 12

1. The Legacy

Aired: 6/1/1999

2. Well-Founded Fear

Aired: 6/5/1999

Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. The film takes its title from the formal definition of a refugee under the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as a person who deserves protection, "owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” The film analyzes the US asylum process by following several asylum applicants and asylum officers through actual INS interviews.

3. Golden Threads

Aired: 6/8/1999

4. In My Corner

Aired: 6/22/1999

5. The Green Monster

Aired: 6/29/1999

6. Rabbit In The Moon

Aired: 7/6/1999

7. Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena

Aired: 7/13/1999

Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. It places emphasis on the transformation of Selena from a popular entertainer into a modern-day saint and role model. This documentary uses authentic home videos, news stories, footage from concerts and a debate between intellectuals to analyze the effect of Selena and Selena’s murder at the hands of Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her fan club.

8. School Prayer: A Community At War

Aired: 7/20/1999

9. The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez

Aired: 7/27/1999

The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan.

10. Regret to Inform

Aired: 1/24/2000

Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.